It's been around 10 years when focusing on a school textbook or looking into a cell phone screen caused a sudden headache for 7-year-old Gurjot Singh. That continued for 3-4 years. The doctor had told his parents to expect this because the head injury could have been fatal; their son was lucky.
Gurjot was cycling on the kutcha roads of his village, Husainabad -- a mere dot on India's rural map in the Nakodar tehsil of Jalandhar district in Punjab -- when a bike hit him. He fell, and his head banged into the stony part of the 'chakki' (manual flour grinder) wedged on the side of the road. He lay unconscious in a pool of blood. The biker and his friend picked up Gurjot and took him to the nearest medical facility.
